“You only think of yourself. You’re not a selfish girl. You’re selfishness personified. You think that you’re a real person, that you’re unique. But you’re not. ”
La Sirène du Mississippi (dir. by François Truffaut, 1969)
Favourite Films (68/???):
La nuit américaine (Day for Night), Francois Truffaut, 1973
“Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. Soon you just hope to reach your destination! What is a film director? Someone who’s asked questions about everything. Sometimes he knows the answers.”
Have you ever taken a good look at yourself?
Jacques Demy with François Truffaut on the set of Donkey Skin
Domicile Conjugal, François Truffaut, 1970
“One thing is certain: Truffaut became fully ‘Hitchcock-ified,’ literally ‘Hitchcock-ified’ stylistically, starting with The Soft Skin. There’s a scene in that film that I find both good and not so good because of how outrageously it imitates Hitchcock. It’s the scene where the provincial critics are introduced to Desailly’s character. It’s shot exactly like when the Nazi spies are introduced to Bergman in Notorious. It’s exactly the same, shot for shot. It’s exactly the same thing. To me, although it works well in Hitchcock’s film, here it seems excessive. I understand that provincial critics are terrifying, but nothing like Nazi spies! I think using the same approach was overdoing it a bit.” -- Claude Chabrol
“Rear Window is a film about indiscretion, about intimacy violated and taken by surprise at its most wretched moments; a film about the impossibility of happiness, about dirty linen that gets washed in the courtyard; a film about moral solitude, an extraordinary symphony of daily life and ruined dreams.”
–Francois Truffant
François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Léaud at the Cannes Film Festival, 1959
Domicile Conjugal, François Truffaut, 1970
Director François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Léaud on the set of L'Amour en futile, 1979
Baisers volés, François Truffaut, 1968
François Truffaut - Jeanloup Sieff
François Truffaut and Jeanne Moreau on the set of Jules et Jim, 1962
Deneuve with Truffaut
Francois Truffaut & Jean-Pierre Leaud
